Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄζυγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄζυγος ἄζυγη ἄζυγον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + ζυγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = a)/zuc

Sense

  1. unwedded

Examples

  • πᾶσα δὲ γέννα Φρυγῶν πρὸσ πύλασ ὡρμάθη, πεύκᾳ ἐν οὐρεί̈ᾳ ξεστὸν λόχον Ἀργείων καὶ Δαρδανίασ ἄταν θέᾳ δώσων, χάριν ἄζυγοσ ἀμβροτοπώλου· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, antistrophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. unwedded

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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